Modular cooler construction
OwnerWarren Bret Williamsinventor
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Abstract
A modular cooler construction comprised of a series of various-sized containers interlocked together to provide versatility for various capacities of food storage as may be desired; axillary drawer structures are likewise supplied and interlocked with the primary containers to provide for meat and dry ice storage and the like.
Claims5
Modular cooler structure including, in combination, plural rectangular container members of rectangular transverse cross-section each having a hinged lid and an underside, said container members each having vertically oriented, mutually intercooperable means for releasably securing said members together in flush side-engaging side-by-side relationship, and wherein said mutually intercooperable means include respective detent-protuberance means and detent-depression receiver means for determining the releasable mutually vertical positioning of said containers, and further wherein, when said container members are joined together, said structure also includes a base-disposed receiver member providing an interior, self-contained drawer and having plural means for releasably securing said receiver member to said undersides of said container members.
In combination, a molded container having a bottom and an upstanding sidewall projecting upwardly from the periphery of said bottom and having an upper edge, and a molded container lip frame secured to and over said upper edge and having a container lid hinged to said frame, said container and said frame having aligned vertical undercut, slide-rail-receiving slots.
A modular container structure including, in combination, a central container member, a pair of side-opposite container members disposed respectively at opposite sides of said central container and each side-opposite container having a width essentially equivalent to one-half the width of said central container member, said side-opposite container members having respective exterior sidewall means for releasably securing said side-opposite container members to opposite sides of said central container member, a pair of side-by-side disposed drawer receivers releasably secured to and underneath said side-opposite container members and overlapping said central container member, and drawers respectively slidably disposed within said receivers.
In combination, a pair of containers releasably secured together and having respective undersides, and a drawer receiver having a pull-out drawer, said drawer receiver overlapping both of said containers at their undersides, said containers and drawer receiver having respective slide-rail and undercut grooved means, mutually intercooperating, for releasably securing said drawer receiver to and underneath both of said containers.
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